Do Native people in the North depend on the East Coast commercial seal hunt?
No. There are no Inuit people involved in the annual taking of the 325,000 seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the Northern coast of Newfoundland and the Southern coast of Labrador. The Inuit do not favor harp seals, but rather target ring and bearded seals. According to the 2004 Annual Report of the North American Marine Mammal Commission harp seals are taken by the Inuit people only for use as food for their dogs.
